allonlinenovel Chapter 634 Cheating
Chapter 634 Cheating
At the same time, Shang Hong took advantage of the gap in the palace inspection to sneak into Chaoyang Palace.
What happened tonight scared Helan Yanran to death. Suddenly she saw Shang Hong running towards her, and her heart was about to jump out of her chest. "Master Shang, please leave quickly. The Emperor and the Empress are back, and we can't meet again."
She thought that if she had explained everything to him during the day, they would stop doing such ridiculous things.
Shang Hong took out the kites she had hung on the wall in her palace. "Since your majesty is so determined, why do you still keep them? Even if the emperor wants to dismiss me from my position, Shang Hong will not give up Lan'er."
Helan Yanran was moved to tears. The palace was lonely and desolate. She was too alone and too scared. She also regretted that she could not hurt him.
"We have committed a capital crime by having an affair with a concubine in the harem. Lord Shang has a bright future ahead of him. You can't let it be ruined because of me. Please leave! I beg you. The last time Shu Yan saw the kite in my hand, she seemed to have discovered something. I was very scared."
"She can never threaten Lan'er, don't worry, Lan'er!"
There was a stern look in Shang Hong's eyes. Shu Ronghua was punished by the emperor today. If he took this opportunity to get rid of her, he would let her disappear in the palace without anyone noticing.
Helan Yanran's and Shu Yan's palaces were next to each other. One day, Shu Yan suddenly discovered her secret of using kites to express her love, but Shu Yan was very smart and did not say anything.
Shang Hong held her in his arms. At this time, Helan Yanran suddenly felt chest tightness and wanted to vomit because of her excitement.
She pushed Shang Hong away, held the spittoon and started vomiting violently.
Shang Hong was stunned: "Lan'er, you..."
He stared at Helan Yanran's belly and asked excitedly, "You have a child?" He knew that the child was his, because it was the first time she was with him, and the emperor had never favored her in all the years she had been in the palace.
Helan Yanran said, "I don't want this child. He will harm us. Sir, just pretend you know nothing. I have decided to abort this child."
"No, you can't abort the child. He is our child. Are you really willing to abort him?"
"Of course I don't want to, but what else can I do if I don't abort it? We have no way out, and both our families will be implicated by us."
"I'll think of a way. Don't worry. I will definitely find a way. Lan'er, I really like you. I want to marry you and I will treat you well for the rest of my life."
Helan Yanran was persuaded by him. She thought that she would never be loved by the emperor even if she stayed in the deep palace for her whole life, so she might as well find a man who loved her. However, she was the emperor's concubine, and they were committing a capital crime.
At this time, Shu Yan came to the palace gate with a pig-like face. When the palace maid saw her coming, she hurriedly reported, "Empress Shu Ronghua is here again."
Helan Yanran was so scared that she quickly asked Shang Hong to go out and hide. She said to the palace maid, "I am asleep and will not see any guests. Let Su Ronghua go back. We can talk tomorrow if we have anything to say. It's too late today."
Shang Hong said, "Such a big thing happened in the palace tonight. She suddenly came to you in the middle of the night. Is there something wrong? Ask someone to call her in!"
After a while, the maid brought Shu Yan in. Helan Yanran was the only one around. She asked, "What's the matter, Empress Ronghua, that brought you here so late?"
Shu Yan's face was swollen from the beating, but it hadn't subsided yet. She took out her most decent jewelry and said, "This is for Concubine Lan. I hope you like it."
Helan Yanran was a little confused. Thinking that there was a man hiding in the room, she said calmly, "What does Shu Ronghua mean? No merit, no reward."
Shu Yan said: "I really want to be friends with Concubine Lan. Our palaces are the closest to each other, and we are usually busy with our own things. Think about how pitiful we are as concubines. If we are not careful, people will say it is our fault and offend..." She did not say the words "Empress".
Helan Yanran did not say anything. She knew that Shu Yan was talking about the Queen Mother. Today, Shu Yan slandered the Queen in public and was later punished by the Emperor. She deserved it.
Seeing that she was silent, Shu Yan looked at the various kites in the room and said, "I like kites, too. Concubine Lan often flies kites in the Imperial Garden. They are quite unique! I heard that they were all made by you, Your Majesty."
Shu Yan would never have thought that the person who had feelings for Helan Yanran was Shang Hong, the commander of the Imperial Guards, because Shang Hong's image of being selfless and dedicated had been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Besides, Shang Hong had an affair with the dead woman from Zhu Yushi's family, which was still fresh in Helan Yanran's memory. How could Helan Yanran like Shang Hong? So Shu Yan guessed that it was another man.
Helan Yanran twisted her fingers in her handkerchief, her heart beating loudly. As soon as Shu Yan left, she had all the kites burned. At that time, she was really bored staying in the palace. She would really be driven crazy if she stayed in the palace for too long, so she didn't burn them because she couldn't bear to do it.
She said, "If Shu Ronghua likes them, I'll give you a few, or if you like a certain style, I can make one for you."
"Are you really willing to do that?" she said.
"Ah!" Helan Yanran was stunned, and smiled: "What's there to be reluctant about? It's just a kite. If Sister Ronghua likes it, I'll give it to you."
Shu Yan was not here to ask for a kite. Her real purpose was to find helpers to cooperate with. "I know that Concubine Lan is not favored by the emperor. She was favored by the emperor several times. Unfortunately, you have never been pregnant. I think there is something strange about this. It may even be that the queen is doing something to prevent Concubine Lan from getting pregnant with the emperor's heir."
Helan Yanran didn't know how to answer this question. She became more and more nervous. "How can I blame the Queen? It's my own fault that I can't get pregnant. It's my problem."
"When we entered the palace, we all passed a strict selection process. We all knew why we entered the palace. How could it be that our health was not good?"
"How did Zhang Jingjing and Pan Nianru get pregnant? They took advantage of the Queen's confinement period to climb into the Emperor's bed." She sneered, "It's a pity that they didn't live long. In the end, they ended up with one corpse and two lives."
Shu Yan was very jealous of them being favored by the emperor because she had tried many times and never succeeded. She was even humiliated by the emperor and even the queen disliked her.
She knew why, because her father had always been looked down upon by the brother of Queen Jiang's mother's family, who always wanted to suppress him, but her father was also an elder in the court, and he would be cautious no matter how powerful he was.
Now she was beaten in public again, her face was broken and she lost all face. She couldn't accept it no matter how hard she thought about it.
Helan Yanran was a concubine who had won the emperor's favor, but she secretly used kites to pass messages to her lover. She thought they could cooperate because she had something on him.